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• I don’t have a director. The audience directs me.

  James T. Walsh

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• The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

  Alexander Payne

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• Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it’s a very safe place.

  Aleksa Palladino

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• Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

  Leander Paes

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• I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

  Danny Huston

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• For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it’s hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

  Linda Hunt

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• The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that’s a huge responsibility.

  Nicholas Hoult

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• Well, in the theater, I think you’re actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn’t, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

  Bernard Hill

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• Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says ‘Far out’, then they let me do what I want with it and that’s usually more interesting for an actor.

  Katherine Helmond

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• A director recommended me for the role on ‘Soap.’ They said, ‘She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.’ He said, ‘On stage, she could be very very funny.’

  Katherine Helmond

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• You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won’t matter if the movie doesn’t work emotionally as well as intellectually.

  Todd Haynes

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• Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it’s empowering.

  Chris Hemsworth

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• Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there’s something about the script, that’s what I go for, although I know that that doesn’t always translate because sometimes it’s about the vision of the director.

  Sally Hawkins

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• I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director – I mean there’s no director who makes enough movies anyway – but if they’re talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

  Rutger Hauer

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• I love Sam Mendes. He’s a fantastic director.

  Naomie Harris

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• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He’s someone who’s into controversy, you know what I mean? That’s David Mamet.

  Edward Thomas Hardy

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• Whenever I’m in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, ‘You know what: my dad’s a really, really famous theatre director,’ because nobody has any idea.

  Rebecca Hall

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• You either are a good director or you’re not.

  Rebecca Hall

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• They say that theater is the actor’s medium, television is the writer’s medium and film is the director’s medium, and it’s really true.

  Charlie Hunnam

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